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By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-02-16T15:17:35+00:0023 Feb 2023|annual cycle, bio-logging, fledglings, Genetics, Migration, movement, overwintering, Seabirds, tracking|

How do Manx Shearwaters develop their migration routes?

Displacement of auks by offshore wind farms

By Bob Furness|2022-11-18T15:15:35+00:0021 Nov 2022|bio-logging, distribution, geolocator, movement, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, ringing, Seabirds, tracking, wind farms|

Geolocator studies clarify which populations are most at risk

Where do Barbary Reed Warblers overwinter?

By Frédéric Jiguet|2022-11-07T15:06:03+00:0014 Nov 2022|adult survival, Africa, bio-logging, distribution, geolocator, IBIS, migrant, Migration, movement, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, passerines, population dynamics, ringing, stable isotopes, tracking|

Geolocators and stable isotopes reveal the African wintering grounds of this long-hidden European species

Does urban breeding influence gull foraging?

By Liam Langley|2022-10-27T16:18:10+00:0031 Oct 2022|adaptation, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, colonial birds, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, foraging, habitat selection, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tracking, Urban birds|

Urban and coastal breeding Lesser Black-backed Gulls segregate by foraging habitat

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-05-03T13:06:43+00:005 May 2022|agriculture, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird movements, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, movement, overwintering, plastics, pollution, remote sensing, tracking, water quality|

Human activities determine the daily schedule of overwintering birds in Spain.

Nest-switching Storks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-15T09:02:32+00:0021 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, Breeding, displacement, Genetics, gps tags, movement, nest monitoring, nestlings, occurrence data, population dynamics, ringing, tracking|

What is the best method to quantify the frequency of nest-switching?

Connecting vultures to the Internet of Things

By Jethro Gauld|2023-10-16T08:49:19+00:0020 Dec 2021|bio-logging, birds of prey, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, gps tags, movement, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, tracking, vultures|

A new way to track bird movements using a growing LoRa network

Tracking the elusive Manx Shearwater

By Saskia Wischnewski|2021-01-04T17:00:55+00:0028 Dec 2020|Seabirds, tracking|

The Irish record breakers

The smallest Mediterranean seabird makes the longest foraging trips

By Andreu Rotger|2020-10-05T20:27:01+00:0010 Aug 2020|foraging, gps tags, Seabirds, tracking|

Mediterranean Storm Petrels travel more than 1,500 km in 3-4 days

Fledging into the wild

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:45:00+00:0026 Mar 2020|automated radiotelemetry, mark‐recapture, MOTUS, survival, tracking|

What determines survival of juvenile Barn Swallows during the post-fledgling period?